One of the skills I'm finally mastering in my old age is framing things as intents rather than goals.

This reduces the anxiety around the need to reach a goal, avoids disappointment due to unrealistic expectations.

Just be prepared for what you want to happen, but don't expect it. Avoid overt acts that might express a desire for a particular outcome, because they will be taken the wrong way by others.

Often, I am surprised by the results of this approach.

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Hillary had her own email server, and people decided some stuff was classified in the emails, and the NYT went on for WEEKS, Congress critters went wild for months.

Trump has his own entire Social Media Platform where he shares actual classified natsec noforn info with everyone. Not a peep from NYT or Congress.

Hmmm....

I know most of the time we are blaming new data centers on "AI", which needs giant Borg-like data center racks of GPUs.

But that's also the same infrastructure you'd need if you wanted to, say, mine bitcoin (any crypto), isn't it ?

Is "AI" jst an excuse to get (other) people to pay for that ?